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International Office News
April 2016
Long Life Puja Update and Thanks
Visualize a Food Offering for 30,000
New Online Feature from Mandala Publications
Report on the Activities of the IMI
Large Thangka from the Foundation Store
Rejoice! Two Foundation Service Seminars
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche News:
Activities and Advice
Lama Zopa Rinpoche is currently teaching in Malaysia.
Highlights from our blogs:
The Power of Merely Thinking of Helping Someone
Lama Zopa: Merely thinking of helping someone! … Is far, far, far greater, infinitely greater, than making offering to buddhas!
Even Raising a Doubt Breaks Samsara in Pieces
“It is said that even raising a doubt about emptiness, even raising a doubt, even that breaks samsara in pieces,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche says in “Teachings on the Heart Sutra,” an excerpt of a March 2000 teaching now available through the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive. Read in full …
Find a wide range of advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Rinpoche’s Advice page.
Schedule
See the 2016 schedule in full.
Now till May 2: Teachings, initiations and retreat, South East Asia
August 13: Teaching on the Seven Point Mind Training, Kadampa Center, USA
August 14 – 28: Light of the Path Retreat, Kadampa Center, USA
Long Life Puja Update and Thanks
Read Ven. Roger Kunsang’s update and thanks for the practices done for Rinpoche’s long life. The praise to Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered on behalf of the entire FPMT has now been translated into Spanish; as has the Long Life Prayer for Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, spontaneously composed by Khadro-la (Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme).
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International Office News:
New from Education Services
A short Hevajra sadhana, The Essence of Dispelling Errors, is now available through the FPMT Foundation Store to those with the appropriate initiation (Nine-Deity Hevajra).
Sutra Remembering the Three Jewels, which is recommended to be recited on Buddha multiplying days by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, has been added to Education Service’s sutra resources page.
Visualize a Food Offering for 30,000!
Can you imagine the effort and skill required for volunteers to prepare, cook, and transport rice and bread for 30,000? Last December, 150 monks from the Sera Je Food Fund Kitchen woke up at 2 a.m. every morning to help feed 30,000 participants of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Jangchup Lamrim teachings. You can read how they did this in a recent blog from FPMT Charitable Projects.
New Online Feature from Mandala Publications
Mandala’s newest online feature – Human Spirit: Bridging Buddhism and Psychoanalysis in Israel – demonstrates how FPMT centers can creatively collaborate with non-FPMT organizations to bring the power of Buddhist thought and the tools of FPMT education programs into diverse contexts and traditionally non-Buddhist cultures. FPMT-registered teacher Ven. Sangye Khadro describes how Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa worked with the Israel Association for Self Psychology and the Study of Subjectivity to develop a seven-year psychoanalytic training program that incorporates Buddhist philosophy and meditation into its curriculum.
Friends of FPMT
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For Center, Project and Service Directors, SPCs, Board Members, Registered Teachers and Coordinators:
This advice is specifically for those offering service in the roles listed above.
Report on the Activities of the IMI
In case you missed it on the CPMT e-group, the International Mahayana Institute (IMI) – with grateful thanks to all centers, projects, services who contributed to the Lama Yeshe Sangha Fund – recently sent out a report on their activities during 2015.
Large Thangka from the Foundation Store
This thangka of the Seven Medicine Buddhas was painted for the FPMT Foundation Store. The Seven Medicine Buddhas and Shakyamuni Buddha represent the ultimate sources of healing. Receive a special discount when you invite this holy object into your FPMT center, project or service for your students and supporters to enjoy today.
FPMT World:
Rejoice! Two Foundation Service Seminars
We’re happy to announce – with thanks to the two European FPMT centers hosting – two opportunities to participate in a Foundation Service Seminar (FSS):
August 8 – 13 at Institut Vajra Yogini, France
September 19 – 25 at Land of Joy Retreat Centre, UK
“The FSS offers a fundamental FPMT ‘survival toolkit’ for every member of staff or volunteer,” a recent participant commented. “So many difficulties could be alleviated if people were more aware of this toolkit available to them – and even more importantly, how working in a center positively helps to develop a deep understanding of wisdom and compassion in action.”
Opportunities to Offer Service in FPMT
Please check out the regularly updated meritorious opportunities to offer service as a volunteer or as paid staff in FPMT centers, projects and services around the world.
Tushita Meditation Centre, India is looking for a center director; Atisha Centre, Australia, is looking for a spiritual program coordinator; Root Institute, India has several volunteer opportunities.
Impermanence at Work
Centro Tara Cittamani, Italy
We welcome new resident geshe – Geshe Dundup Tsering
Centro Yamantaka, Colombia
We welcome new spiritual program coordinator (SPC) – Felipe Ángel
With grateful thanks to outgoing SPC – Mauricio Roa Mackenzie
Ganden Tendar Ling, Russia
We welcome new director – Sergey Meshcheryakov
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Andrey Kudashov
Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds, UK
We welcome new spiritual program coordinator (SPC) – Fiona Oliver
With grateful thanks to outgoing co-SPCs – David Midglely, Steve Cragg, Andrew Asquith
Nagarjuna C.E.T. Madrid, Spain
We welcome new director – Daniel Badrán
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Inés Garcia
Shantideva Meditation Center, USA
We welcome new director – Desmond Hosford
With grateful thanks to outgoing director – Jennifer Kim
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